Quotes by Constantin Brâncuși

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Art is not an escape from reality, but an entry into the truest reality - perhaps the only true reality.

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The world can be saved through art. The artist basically makes toys... for big people; he is like the silkworm.

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Art must rest and heal man's inner contradictions. These contradictions derive from his very destiny and his tragedy.

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Art must bring closer, not distance; to fill up, not to dig chasms in our poor spirits, and so quite racked with questions...

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Artists' raison d'être is to reveal the beauty of the world.

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In art, what matters is joy. Have the happiness to contemplate ( - marvel)! This is everything.

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Simplicity is not a goal in art, but you arrive, in spite of yourself, at simplicity if you approach the real meaning of things.

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Art does not raise people above themselves, but within themselves.

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Art is a big YES answer to life.

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To create like a god, to command like a king, to work like a slave.

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Whoever does not come out of the ME, does not reach the absolute and does not decipher life either.